2nd and Charles — a reseller of CDs, books, movies, video games, consoles and comic books — is filling the former Borders bookstore location at FlatIron Crossing in Broomfield, officials announced Tuesday.

The reseller, which is slated to open May 30 in the 25,000-square-foot space in the mall's open-air Village, was one of four new tenants announced Tuesday.

Also opening between now and August are clothing stores White House Black Market, PINK by Victoria's Secret and The Limited.

White House Black Market's FlatIron location is scheduled to open its doors on Thursday. The college-focused PINK and women's clothier The Limited are scheduled to open in August, mall officials said in the announcement.

Borders Group Inc. went bankrupt in 2011 and shuttered its 600-plus stores, including its stores in Boulder, Longmont and Broomfield.

The 2nd & Charles location in Broomfield will be the first Colorado store for the division of Birmingham, Ala.-based Books-A-Million and its arrival comes as FlatIron is overhauling the open-air portion of its shopping mall.

The changes include the razing of some buildings to add 250 parking spaces and building an east-west road connecting the parking lots on the opposite ends of the Village, said Heather Drake, FlatIron's senior manager of marketing. Separately, anchor AMC theater is undergoing a renovation that includes new recliners in its theaters and a MacGuffins Bar & Lounge in the lobby.

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Those projects are expected to be completed in June, Drake said.

"We anticipate that sometime in the future, these newly constructed parking fields will be home to new, market-driven development," Drake said in an e-mail to the Camera.

When FlatIron opened in 2001, it was among a couple of "hybrid centers" that had open-air streetscape areas adjoining an enclosed shopping center. The open-air Village, however, suffered from delayed openings, changing market tastes and expansive soils that caused structural damage to the buildings.

FlatIron announced plans in 2008 to redevelop the Village, reconfiguring traffic flow, adding more dining options and building a 140-room hotel.

Citing the effects of the Great Recession, officials shelved those plans.

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